What did paleolithic man think of, aside from paleolithic woman? Interesting answer to that question here:
http://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2011/12/when-you-hear-the-term.html
The BLUF: they were not dreaming of fruits and vegetables. Those folks wanted MEAT! (and liver, and kidney, and heart, and brains, and eyeballs, and marrow ...)
It is always interesting to me to be confronted with someone else's assumptions, when those assumptions are just about the opposite of mine.
"Scientists examined a series of palm prints within the cave and determined that one of the artists was at least six feet tall, a somewhat rare size in an era where proper nutrition could be hard to come by."
Man, and I was thinking it is hard to come by "proper nutrition" in the current age, in which we all get enough protein to be tall but our teeth and jaws are a mess, our lives defined by fear of food driven disease, and our science of diet is still trying to decide if it would like to be a discipline within the field of biological science (and therefore based on evolution as the defining model) or just stumble around in the dark trying to measure discrete elements of health until they find the golden health BB in the form of enough medications to treat all the diet induced diseases we give ourselves.
The other interesting assumption or artifice of the author is his/her use of the terms "scientist." It's a catch all meaning "authoritative figure."
"Chauvet Cave was unearthed over fifteen years ago, and in order to maintain it's integrity scientists have restricted the public's already limited access."
If you need to validate any action or opinion or practice, especially when performed by the government, just inform the "public" that "scientists" did it or wanted it done. Apparently that's satisfactory for many a "public" reader.
I prefer to think of scientists as what they are - folks like us. They likely know more than you do about one thing, but they are no more likely to make good decisions than any other homo sapiens. Keep in mind - the defining characteristic of the scientific method is the belief that one should never trust the opinion of a scientist.
http://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2011/12/when-you-hear-the-term.html
The BLUF: they were not dreaming of fruits and vegetables. Those folks wanted MEAT! (and liver, and kidney, and heart, and brains, and eyeballs, and marrow ...)
It is always interesting to me to be confronted with someone else's assumptions, when those assumptions are just about the opposite of mine.
"Scientists examined a series of palm prints within the cave and determined that one of the artists was at least six feet tall, a somewhat rare size in an era where proper nutrition could be hard to come by."
Man, and I was thinking it is hard to come by "proper nutrition" in the current age, in which we all get enough protein to be tall but our teeth and jaws are a mess, our lives defined by fear of food driven disease, and our science of diet is still trying to decide if it would like to be a discipline within the field of biological science (and therefore based on evolution as the defining model) or just stumble around in the dark trying to measure discrete elements of health until they find the golden health BB in the form of enough medications to treat all the diet induced diseases we give ourselves.
The other interesting assumption or artifice of the author is his/her use of the terms "scientist." It's a catch all meaning "authoritative figure."
"Chauvet Cave was unearthed over fifteen years ago, and in order to maintain it's integrity scientists have restricted the public's already limited access."
If you need to validate any action or opinion or practice, especially when performed by the government, just inform the "public" that "scientists" did it or wanted it done. Apparently that's satisfactory for many a "public" reader.
I prefer to think of scientists as what they are - folks like us. They likely know more than you do about one thing, but they are no more likely to make good decisions than any other homo sapiens. Keep in mind - the defining characteristic of the scientific method is the belief that one should never trust the opinion of a scientist.
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